New Zealand

  • Studio portrait of Māori chief Wiremu Tāmihana (aka William Thompson), "The Kingmaker", 1865.

    # 46462

    [WEBSTER, Hartley]

    Studio portrait of Māori chief Wiremu Tāmihana (aka William Thompson), “The Kingmaker”, 1865.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso with fully contemporary note in pencil: ‘Wiremue Tomsana [sic] or William Thompson, The King maker’; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. This would appear to be a pirated copy, probably circulated after the death …

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  • Moko; or Maori tattooing

    # 46648

    ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, Major-General (1840-1930)

    Moko; or Maori tattooing

    London : Chapman & Hall, 1896. Quarto, gilt-lettered brown cloth with moko decoration, (a couple of light stains, minor rubbing at edges, corners a little bumped, small impaction dent to spine), bookplate to front pastedown, photographic frontispiece, 180 illustrations and photographs; a good copy of this scarce publication. Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) was a soldier, …

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  • Colin McCahon : artist

    # 46623

    BRON, Gordon H.

    Colin McCahon : artist

    Wellington : Reed, 1984. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. x; 238, illustrated. A major monograph on the important New Zealand painter.

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  • Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman's destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)

    # 45923

    VOGEL, Julius, Sir (1835-1899)

    Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman’s destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)

    / by Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G. London : Hutchinson and Co., 1889. “Colonial edition”. Octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered pictorial grey cloth (boards rubbed and lightly marked, corners bumped; spine sunned and marked, frayed at ends); frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. viii, [1]-331, [4 publisher’s advertisements]; newspaper cutting to verso of front endpaper …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.

    # 46141

    [Various Wellington photographers]

    [NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.

    Twenty-five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, average dimensions 100 x 63 mm (mounts), by the Wellington studios of E. S. Richards (4), Richards & Batt (1), Batt & Richards (2), W. H. Davis (7), W. J. Harding (1), Wrigglesworth (1), and Wrigglesworth & Binns (1), and the Wanganui studio of Thomas Tuffin …

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  • [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    # 46347

    MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)

    [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …

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  • Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.

    # 41732

    WRIGGLESWORTH & BINNS

    Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 116 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Wrigglesworth & Binns, Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand’, and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Oct. 17th 1881’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.

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  • Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    # 46399

    MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887)

    Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    [=Old New Zealand]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1870. First Danish edition. Duodecimo, original cloth-backed papered boards (rubbed), upper board with nineteenth century Danish school library’s ownership inscription, mild foxing to paste-downs outer leaves, 66 pp, contents clean and sound, a good copy. Text in Danish. Rare. Politician and religious authority Ditlev Gothard Monrad lived in …

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  • Manual of the birds of New Zealand

    # 45981

    BULLER, Walter Lawry, 1838-1906; KEULEMANS, John Gerrard, 1842-1912

    Manual of the birds of New Zealand

    Wellington : George Didsbury, Government Printer, 1882. Octavo, gilt-lettered binder’s cloth (corners bumped, wear to head and foot of spine), pp. xii; 107; [blank]; iii (list of publications); [blank], illustrated with 39 black and white lithographs on tinted blocks, previous owner’s name to endpaper, a couple of occasional spots of foxing, internally clean. Sir Walter …

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  • [MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.

    # 45562

    HEWITT, Charles

    [MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.

    [Circa 1868]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); recto inscribed ‘9d pence each’ (presumably in the hand of a Melbourne print- or bookseller); verso with imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer, Australasian Studio, 95, Swanston Street. Melbourne’; a strong print but with scattered foxing; the back mark is faded. The American …

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  • Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642.

    # 44894

    TASMAN, Abel Janszoon (1603 - 1659)

    Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand in 1642.

    With documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644 being photo-lithographic facsimiles of the original manuscript in the colonial archives at The Hague with an English translation and facsimiles of original maps to to which are added life and labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman by J. E. Heeres, Ll. D. Professor at the Dutch …

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  • Studio portrait of a woman in mourning dress standing beside an infant in a pram. Christchurch, New Zealand, late 1860s.

    # 45157

    WHEELER, Edmund

    Studio portrait of a woman in mourning dress standing beside an infant in a pram. Christchurch, New Zealand, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 65 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘E. Wheeler’s Studio, Colombo Street, Christchurch’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. The woman’s face is haggard and her expression is melancholic. She looks old enough to be the child’s grandmother – although she is probably its mother.

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  • Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

    # 44855

    GOOS, Pieter

    Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

    Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …

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  • Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en 't Eylandt California

    # 44856

    OTTENS, Reinier (1698 - 1750); de WIT, Frederik (1629 - 1706)

    Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en ‘t Eylandt California

    Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens’ chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit’s chart …

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  • Panorama of the old world and the new.

    # 44895

    PINNOCK, William

    Panorama of the old world and the new.

    Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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  • Rules of the Polynesian Society

    # 45154

    POLYNESIAN SOCIETY

    Rules of the Polynesian Society

    New Plymouth, NZ : Thomas Avery & Sons Limited, 1922. Third edition. Octavo, self-wrappers (lightly foxed, old fold lines), pp. 7; some spotting at margins, otherwise good.

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